Formation of Suncheon Bay
The history of Suncheon Bay is about 8000 years. The study of geologists says that after the last glacial epoch on the earth, the level of sea increased about 160 m (520 ft). The western area of Korea, called West Sea, turned from the land to the sea. The Korean peninsula was what it is now. It is estimated that in Suncheon Bay to have been of brackish water, earth and sand, coming along the river, has been accumulated long time by the tide of sea and the accumulation consisted in extensive sandbar.
Read more about this topic: Suncheon Bay Ecological Park
Famous quotes containing the words formation of, formation and/or bay:
“The formation of an oppositional world view is necessary for feminist struggle. This means that the world we have most intimately known, the world in which we feel “safe” ... must be radically changed. Perhaps it is the knowledge that everyone must change, not just those we label enemies or oppressors, that has so far served to check our revolutionary impulses.”
—Bell (c. 1955)
“Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful—the formation of fixed habits of work.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)
“The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)